#4693 Not So Grand Opening

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1:01Okay, this is about escaping with your life. What's a matter Colonel Sanders? Chicken? Buckle up back there. We're going into hyperactive. All right, hello, good morning and welcome everyone to a Friday edition of TVTL the show. It just might be too beautiful to live. My name is Luke Burbank. I'm your host coming to you today from beautiful. And I mean that. Beautiful and sunny Seattle, Washington. The Emerald City, here on Friday, March 27th. We've made it folks to episode 4,693 in a collector series. It's almost a picture perfect day here in Seattle. If not for the fact that the Seattle Mariners were thwarted in their chances and their attempts to win last night, we were at the opening game. We'll talk about that and also the argument that I had with them with the people sitting next to us about Israel, you know, like you do, on opening day of Major League Baseball. And the fact that Becca was not unlike a lot of real people,

2:05innocently caught in the middle of the entire conflict. We'll get into that also. Stephen Colbert is going to be writing the next Lord of the Rings movie. If only I had a brother who had literally studied the semirellion and also knows how to say it, I bet. So we'll talk to him about that and in the emails and the emails. If you are a, let's just say less tall king in Major League Baseball and you have been trying to get over on your Tinder profile. This is a bad season for you and we'll get into why that is. But not before saying hello to the aforementioned brother of mine, the one, the only, the last burbank, the real bow tie. Oh, wow. Yeah, going on with the old one. Deep cut and David from the basement, who is about to turn 30 on Sunday. Happy birthday, bro. Thank you. Yeah. The big three. Oh, I, it's weird. I for the last couple of years felt like I was 30 already. So it's going to be nice to actually be able to say that I'm 30.

3:06It's a big, it's a big number. Oh, it's, it's one of those. I feel like 21 because there's the whole you can drink thing. But then 30 really feels like, okay, now adulthood is, is happening. Yeah, it does feel like the pressure is on a little bit. Well, that's not what I'm taking things out. But I've been feeling that for a while now. Um, we were, you know, chatting it up and chopping it up on the, on the criminals last night. Because of course, that was the opening night for the Mariners was a big night. Uh, I did manage to get a hold of one of these very, um, sought after. Yes. Uh, ferry snack disp, not dispensers, but it's just basically like something shaped like a Washington State ferry, which they can put. The little cardboard box that holds your chicken fingers and fries or your garlic fries or your whatever's in. And last night, I had to wait until the eighth inning to actually wait. Because the lines were so crazy. There were more people trying to get those little ferry boat things. Then there were people interested in the game, which brings me to my, my first point today on the show, which is that.

4:11I don't think I like going to opening day of baseball because it is the ratio of things that are not baseball happening on the field. The patch entry to things that are baseball. Right. 50, 50, I would like that to be 99% baseball. Right. 1% non baseball on the field. I do not need an introduction of the assistant strength and conditioning coach, which was one of the many things Becca and I had to sit through. The pregame, whatever shenanigans, and I know great. We won the American League West West. I like them unfurling the banner that I was good. But there was so much just like pageantry. There was an hour of it before the game started. It was so it was so boring and it felt like it was just. I felt like a lot of the folks that were there at the game also. I mean, I can't judge people's hearts even though I try day in and day out.

5:11I felt like, you know, it was a big fun social event to be at. And my sense was it was it was not, you know, show me a show me a Tuesday night. Yes. Or a better yet a Tuesday afternoon. Give me a business person special baby. Yes. That's my go to. And then and then we're talking. And again, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to gatekeep. Okay. I was gate kept once and I hated it. But no, I'm not trying to say who gets to come to the game and how they should enjoy it. And it just had this feeling of like it felt like well, and also look, I didn't love the C17 fly over as the American flag was unfurled on the field. I turned to Becca and I said quietly, I wonder how they're celebrating opening day in Iran. Yeah. You know, that's like this because I also don't think of that as a thing with baseball. It seems more NFL kind of coded to me all this like the military. So it was just and it was impossible to navigate any of the, you know, sort of like walkways and just going anywhere was just like totally insane.

6:12The lines for the getting the snacks. Because there was like three or four concession stands that had this little fairy thing. Right. The lines for that before the game were like insane. Like it was like an hour and a half line to get this piece of plastic. Yeah, and it feels like the opening day yesterday feels like the perfect intersection of the Mariners have had this amazing season last season. They've got all this expectations going into the next season. So fans and bandwagon fans and casual fans and everyone are wanting to go to the ballpark. It's going to be one of the first nice days in the Northwest for a long time. They've got, I feel like their social media team did a great job with all of this new food. I mean, it's funny. But I saw the initial kind of like post by the Mariners for this fairy vessel thing that holds your, you know, your chicken strips or whatever. And immediately I, you know, texted my wife being like, ooh, this, I want this. And that was before it kind of like blew up blew up.

7:12Then they had their media day and then all the influences were talking about it. So it makes sense that there were huge lines for it. It makes sense that it was probably a disproportionately non-diehard fan type of, type of evening there. So yeah, I, it, I don't think I would ever want to go to an opening day game probably just because again, all the crowds. And you know, whereas you get maybe later in the season or against really the Yankees or someone, you get a packed stadium. And it feels like it pays off a little bit because it's a really big moment. It might be a big game that has consequences. Opening day, it's kind of like, it's just an excuse for all that pageantry. It's an excuse for our friend Tom Huttler to just be announcing that one. Tom Huttler. Yeah. Yeah. Which brings us to the, I can't decide if it was unfortunate or fortunate incident involving the people sitting next to us. Or I should say sitting next to Becca because we were, we had some actually pretty good seats, which I had to buy on StubHub, which were, came at a, at a high cost.

8:16But I figured, this is Becca's first, you know, Major League Baseball game. Oh, with me anyway. I know you went in Minnesota when you lived back there. But, and I knew it was going to be a crazy night. And I thought, we might as well be somewhere where we can kind of see the field really well and kind of in the, in the mix. And so we, and, and it was obviously packed. Every seat was taken every, you know, there was no like kind of, on a regular day, there's a lot of empty seats. You can kind of fiddle around and sit where you want to sit and then wait for someone to chase you out. This was not that energy. This was like, we kind of, she made our way to our seats and those were the only two open seats. Yeah, sure. In our particular section. And so the folks to my left was, I think a mom and her daughter and they were great. Huge Mariners fans. Really like talkative, excited and just like happy to be there, but also knew their stuff. One of my favorite things about going to a Mariners game is like having a sitting next to someone and then realizing over the course of the game. Yes. They're as big a fan as you. Yes. They know the references. They're yelling at the right time. And you, you know, you have this like friendship there with them throughout the course of the game.

9:21I love that. Which I, I, I thread a little, like a little test line, which was when they introduced Randy, I was like, but is he still mad at Cal? Because I'm going to be watching this body language the entire game and I was like, okay, we're going to work. This is going to be good. Now, Becca was to my right and to Becca's right was what do you remember, Beck's about about the, the folks that were sitting. There was, it was a family. It was kind of like an adult. It was an adult woman and I presumably her husband and then I think her parents. So it was like four people. What was your sense of them? Yes. So probably a 30-year-old woman, her 30-year-old husband, the 30-year-old was pregnant and kept talking about it. Uh-huh. And then her parents. I remember you saying to me at one point, which is interesting because, you know, you are, in your words, an aspiring baseball wife. And you were like, you're on a journey of discovery of learning about Major League Baseball at the game. But you were engaged with the game and I found it interesting when you turned to me and you said, these people do not care about this game at all.

10:22They have not said one thing related to the game on the field. Right. In fact, they were talking more about golf than baseball. Interesting. Yeah. And I thought it was interesting for someone that doesn't know a lot about baseball but was interested to overhear these people talking not at all about baseball. Because these tickets are very, very, very valuable. And one of the things was, I think we were talking about this very snack thing at some point when I had gotten it back, when I had gotten back with it. And the, no, let me also throw in this. It was getting pretty cold by the later innings of the game. And, uh, Becca had, uh, had, you know, dressed as warmly as possible, but even so, you were starting to get kind of cold. And I didn't know that you're allowed to bring blankets to the stadium, which is actually pretty cool. So a lot of people had, you know, thought to do that, I didn't. But this group of folks that were really focused on golf and not the game did have a blanket.

11:22And the mom, how did it go down that she was sharing the blanket with you? Right. Which really added to all of this. The complications? Yes. Really put me in a position. Yes. She offered half of her blanket to me. Her daughter didn't want it, so she offered it to me. And I took it because my legs were cold. So when I get back with the fairy boat snack and the whole thing after the hot dogs from heaven had come down in the whole deal, Becca sitting there with the blanket of the lady from the golf family over her. And somehow I think my memory is we were talking about this thing and the little snack container and how hard they were to get. And, but then I see said something like, well, we have season tickets. So we've got a lot of chances. And I said, oh, that's amazing. I go, well, you got a hundred and I said you got 80 more chances or something. I'm always trying to do the math on how many baseball games there are. And she goes, well, my actually, my husband's having a surgery in two weeks. So we won't be back for a while. And I'm like, oh, well, then maybe I go, it's a great season to sell your tickets because they're on stub hub because it's really good.

12:24And the daughter goes like, is it a bad season to do that? I was like, no, it's a good season. Supply, demand, mariners, popular. You have the tickets. It was just the weirdest. Then they were like, we're from LA. We love the Dodgers. And I was like, oh, the other thing the mom said was she goes, I just don't have a good luck selling these tickets on stub hub. And we're not using them. She goes, I priced them really high. And I was like, that's probably part of the problem, lady. Like it was, it was the oddest conversation because again, they have season tickets to the mariners. They seem deeply uninterested in the mariners. I mentioned that I used to live by Dodgers stadium and that really lit them up. Then they were just naming Dodgers. They were like, Eric Gagne, I'd go, that was a Dodger. Then to be like, you know, Matt Kemp. And this is all while things are happening on the field. And that was where there was a little, maybe me, I was trying to not be this way. But this might have been the beginning of the issue, which was,

13:27when Gabe Spiers gave up a hit that scored two runs, there was like a bad moment in the life of a mariners fan. Because it's kind of late in the game. And we've just probably put ourselves in a bad position where we're not going to win. And literally the ball is hit. And I'm just, I see what's happening. I'm kind of emotionally processing it. And they're just still naming Dodgers. They're just still talking to me over Becca about the Los Angeles Dodgers of 20 years ago. And I'm like, and I'm kind of going, uh-huh, uh-huh. But I'm really trying to focus on the field because the game is falling apart for us. And so maybe I was getting a little bit peeved. I didn't remember, I don't remember in the moment feeling anything other than like, I just want to focus on the game. Like I don't remember being mad at this woman. But then we get to the seventh inning stretch. This has been discussed at length here on the LiveWire program. But the LiveWire program, the show called TBTL. It's amazing that I don't do that more frequently, honestly. It's because I have an audience today.

14:28I feel like I'm on stage doing LiveWire as opposed to normally I'm just in my house with Andrew on some little screen. Um, so we've talked about this a lot. But like, you know, there's been this whole thing around. What is the song that the Mariners will play at their field after taking me out to the ballgame? My whole growing up life, it would be like taking me out to the ballgame and at the end, old ballgame, then we go, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. It was Louis, Louis, like the OG version. I think that band is from Tacoma, Washington or something. It was a local connection. Then, of course, they, because nothing gold can stay, the Mariners decided they needed to zazzle it up and they put a Maclamor song in. And then Maclamor got some heat over, I think, comments about the Palestine. He's, you know, he's, he's anti the genocide in Palestine. And then they pulled that. So I really didn't know this was the first home game of this season. And I was genuinely curious, like, what are they going to play? Like, what are they doing here? And, uh, and so by the way, what they are doing is a electroversion of Louis Louis.

15:31Did they do that last year, Davey? Okay. So I didn't realize that. I didn't go to any games last year. So they, and the mom with the blanket is like kind of still in conversation around this. And I say something like, oh, I wonder what they're going to play. Because, you know, they used to play Louis Louis and they were playing Maclamor. But then he got in trouble, you know, um, for saying negative things about Israel. And she goes, she stopped you. Yeah. She goes, well, he's an anti-Semite. And this is a very triggering for me because of the idea that like we've gotten to this rhetorical world where if somebody is critical of what Israel is doing in, in Gaza, then that means you are somehow. Anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitic. You hate, you know, you hate Jewish people or, you know, people in Israel or whatever. And I just think that those concepts have to be really separated out. Because it's an easy, it's an easy way to just like completely invalidate something that someone's saying. Like if Maclamor is saying we should stop, we should not starve children in Gaza. I don't think for me that means he necessarily is an anti-Semite.

16:32And I was three Cours Minuses in at this point. Which is what Becca's family calls Cours Lights. They had a few Cours Minuses. Actually, I think I was having a Modelo. I was having a couple of beers. A few small beers. And something inside me just shifted where it was like, I could just laugh this off when she said, well, he's an anti-Semite. Or I could be like, I don't agree with that. And what I wasn't considering was that Becca was still currently sharing the woman's blanket. And I saw this shift happening in you. Really? Yeah. And you started to sit down and you were like, don't worry, I'm not going to take it far. And I was like, I'm sharing a blanket with her. Well, I just felt like I didn't want to just kind of... I didn't want to just sort of let it go uncommented on because I feel like that's one event.

17:32But over the course of a day, that event is playing out. Thousands, if not millions of times, all around probably the world where people are saying something and someone's just kind of... Well, let's talk about America. I feel like here we've gotten to this a lot where people don't want to make it weird. People say a lot of weird stuff. I was every, like, lift and Uber I was taking in Florida. I got a lift or Uber driver that was on some kind of weird situation with their politics. And as I've been saying, and peace and love to our listeners in Central Florida, it's like a Walgreens and the Huck-To-A-Girl had a baby. It is a truly wild place, Central Florida. It's got some characters. But a lot of times when I was on those rides, I just didn't bring it up because I already didn't get into it. They would say something that was about immigration or Trump or the Democrats. And I would just kind of like just look out the window because I was going to be stuck in this car with this person. Or stuck under a blanket with this person. Well, that's not how you do your Uber rides.

18:33I always ask if they want to share a blanket. Exorate it over the seat. And so I was... You know, I do that a lot too, where you just kind of don't want to get into it. You don't want to make it weird. But for some reason, and again, I probably had to do it with a few small beers, although I didn't feel like I was. I wasn't tuned. I can't consume enough beer to be very drunk because I run out of stomach capacity before there's enough alcohol in my system. No, you weren't too bad. But I mean, maybe it contributed the littlest bit. But I was just like... You know, she was like... And I said, I don't think he's an anti-Semite. And she goes, well, he is. And then she said... And then what she referred back to, which I missed at the time, was that there was this issue with Macklemore, David, that you reminded me of before we started rolling, where he was doing a performance in Seattle. And he wore this crazy get-up, which looked to be very sort of like a caricature of a stereotypical idea of a Jewish man. And he got it, you know, some pushback on it. And I was just really, he apologized immediately and said,

19:34like, that was 100% not what I was trying to do. I can see how it looked like something else that was never in my mind. I tend to take him at his word at that for whatever that's worth. But the woman, in fact, she was trying to say something else about what the other stuff Macklemore had done. Yeah, she was trying to describe that moment. Which, again, I can understand for her how, you know, yeah, if she's been told that and then she saw a picture and it offended her and she happens to be Jewish, it's like, I can understand her lived experience is going to affect how she interprets that photo of Macklemore versus mine. I missed that whole little part of it because I had forgotten about the thing that Macklemore did with the outfit. And also, it was kind of loud because they were still playing a jazzed up Louis-Louis. And I was also realizing that I'm getting my girlfriend's blanket confiscated pretty quickly from this. And so then I was like, I just wanted to let her know where I was and I just said, well, I think Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

20:36And she heard it. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. And she heard her credit and also to my detriment, she said, I am with you there and then I said well, I'm glad we're aligned on that and then I went back to just staring laser beams into the field and then she we started to sit back down She said do you want this anymore? No, and I said hmm. I think I'm good Again to this woman's credit She was offering you the blanket even after Your boyfriend had had been very strong on the subject of Benjamin Netanyahu and to some degree Michael Moore So I give this woman some credit, but then It was like how long would you say it was 45 seconds before Whole family all four of them blanket back into the bag. Didn't say a word to us family up gone They gone now on the one hand it was getting colder They clearly don't care about baseball, but it was

21:36Dulphanently related to me saying Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal which if she agrees with it Then why would you leave? Why would you leave if you agreed with it? So I I don't know. I mean I Think part of why I said that too was because I what I didn't want to get into in that mode I wanted to watch the baseball game and I'm still I'm gonna stand by the fact that I feel like she escalated because all I said was I wasn't weighing in on even if Macklemore was or was not anti-Semitic all I said was Then they didn't want to do Macklemore anymore because he said something that was anti-Israel That could have been the end of it in fact if she could have taken that as like I'm on her team with this or whatever You know what I mean? I didn't say like Macklemore was wrongly accused of I wasn't even like weighing in on the politics I was just saying oh yeah, then they didn't want him to do the song and then she had to come in with he's an anti-Semite That to me up the anti of the conversation a little bit and but um, and then also what I didn't want to do was start to get into like a debate with her about

22:38First of all because that's you're never gonna win that debate with someone that it's on the other side of it from you And also I wanted to watch the baseball game and so I think I was just deploying the nuclear option of Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal because I was just like I could we could like slowly turn the water up on each other like frogs where I'm like Well, I mean have we thought about easing the blockades and I mean there's you know if we if we look at what's really going on in Iran Like I could try to get into the like foreign policy of it with her What are we gonna do that for the next four meetings? Honestly would have been better than watching the Mariners bullpen Well, I think that's the point is that she wants to talk about anything but baseball over me whether it's the Dodgers or Israel or Israel that is such a good point. You're right. She was committed Yeah to the project of not giving a shit about Mariners baseball and that's that's I think what bothered me the most So I'm sorry Listen, I just want to say back. I'm sorry that I got your blanket privileges revoked I'm sorry. I made it weird. I I'll try to not do that. Oh what I'll try to do is do that on a very

23:41Very sort of like infrequent basis I don't want to be the boyfriend who is making it weird in I almost did that at the Super Bowl party too What a guy's it's a thing about Trump and Also that one, you know, luckily that kind of that fizzled out. So I'm trying to not make that the common sort of behavior because I know that's not fun to be around but I For a person who's done a lot of dumb stuff in public with confrontational behavior. I really am weirdly not Super regretful about this one. No, no, it's okay. What's it like to date an ally and hero? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay Well, that that was all I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't hallucinating that it's because usually I come on the show And I tell these stories of what happened to me But there's no one there to like independently verify did I get most of the most of the brush. Okay, thank you My legs are a little chilly, but yeah, and we but we stuck it out for the whole game I was very I was very impressed with your as a person who doesn't follow the Mariners

24:43And or baseball at all and who is generally cold like physically get the cold setting and it was freaking freezing by the end You were like such a trooper. So good job. Thank you. Go Mariners All right, let's thank some dazzling donors These fine folks are donating a dazzling amount of dough to TBTL or live wire whatever you call this show and We are very very appreciative of it folks like Katie Bracken pronounced Targus Targus Katie is in Tacoma, Washington And says a hoi hoi greetings and salutations Luke Andrew John and all the tens It hurts my heart to report that not much has changed for the better since my last dazzling donor message I am however Extremely grateful for TBTL in this community and appreciate the opportunity to try to encourage and uplift all of you amazing

25:44Peeps I've listened to TBTL since the radio days and have to say you all are like family to me David, you know, you're like family to me. Oh, thanks, bro. Yeah This is a comfort zone for me You keep me grounded and normal in such a crazy world. There's such a special community with many ways to connect card exchanges social media in person slash virtual events and I've always felt loved scene and Heard thank you all for that your acts of love kindness and you in unity shine a bright bright light into the darkness Thank you for reminding me that love is stronger than hate and fear That's what I was trying to get to during the game last night Katie I don't know if you've heard about my recent foray into a public debate and trying to really remind people that love is stronger than hate and fear If there's anything I can do to help any of my fellow tens, please let me know stay strong stay grounded Never stop spreading love so generously much love to you all and that's oh, I know okay I did Katie I apologize. I know exactly who Katie is Katie's on Instagram at thankful nurse

26:46At thankful nurse. I follow Katie and it's a great account. Mm-hmm Katie is I'll be honest with you David Katie reminds me a little bit of your wife in this way your wife's Instagram account is the vibes are immaculate. Yes, she's always like like finding little Picture I mean there's always the pictures of your daughter that are great But I'm not but other like meme stuff or just like funny things just yes any any Social media literacy that I have is co-opped in directly from her. Yeah, she somehow knows all it's before trends start Yeah, she's already kind of on it. And yeah, I mean she's hilarious. So she already knows All the good comedic memes and everything. Yeah, so and so I love following her because she's like curating She's constantly she's scanning the the world of the internet to grab like the good stuff and then bring it to her account And that's what Katie's doing with her thankful nurse account. She's like constantly finding Affirmations and things that make you know us feel a little bit better a little bit more like we can maybe get through the particular day

27:48So go a follow Katie at thankful nurse on Instagram and Katie, thank you so much my strobe Wait, that's me on your mark on your mark get set get set now ready ready It's James McCracken in Louisville Kentucky I'm going to Louisville and a couple of weeks actually I'm doing a TV story down there James says another year another dazzle thanks for all the laughs and long-distance friendship have a fish sandwich on me You a fish sandwich guy David. Have you ever had one? We didn't grow up in a fish sandwich family at all. No, I've never you know I've never tried any of the the Anything like that. And yeah, I've if there's fish on a menu I generally don't go for the like fried fish I'll go for for more of the fresh stuff just because I feel like the fried you can't usually taste the fish But I wouldn't say no, I probably would say no to the filet of fish, but to a fancier like something you would get in Seattle

28:50I would probably go for it. I kind of mess with the filet of fish because I don't eat a lot of meat Right. I did have a hot dog yesterday a legit hot dog Did you get one of the value dogs or did you pay full price for the quote-unquote Seattle dog? That's not actually or Marin or dog, which isn't no we got it in the stadium Mm-hmm, and it was not it was I got the junior I got the smallest one Yeah, I haven't had a hot a real hot dog in a long time. I couldn't jump in on the like Like the king whatever they call it, you know the like I feel like that the the stadium hot dog now is like a baseball bat Mm-hmm. It's so much hot dog. Yeah, well, I do wonder also like When I I had a year of being kind of vegetarian and when I had my first red meat after that It kind of upset my stomach a bit and my whole system I wonder because you kind of break your Vegetarianism once every you know several months. Yeah, do you do you get any Astro intestinal discomfort from it. No, I'll tell you what gave me that was when we got here on

29:56Wednesday night we got here late. I was craving ramen Mm-hmm not a typical thing for me and also Downtown Seattle is an absolute Sort of it's a it's a desert for any kind of food after 10 p.m. Yeah, unless you're talking fast food the opposite of New York City Yes, yes Definitely, although even New York City in some in some places. I mean the thing about New York. Yes, there's a volume of Restaurant options is so high that even though a significant number of them are closing earlier They're still enough left over that you're kind of covered Mm-hmm place like Seattle and this has happened to beck and I a few times like when I get done doing live wire And we're like let's go find something to eat and it's 10 30 and it's like there's literally nothing open right But we went there was one ramen place that was open and so we we took a a lift up there and It was a very interesting. It was on Capitol Hill. Mm-hmm Let's see. I feel like I've already gotten I've already I've already painted myself of being a sort of a mildly annoying person in the world

30:58But based on my baseball run ins but like it was now granted we got there at 10 30 or yeah We got there at 10 30 it closed at 11. We knew that we knew that the place was packed the employees Who should not have to stay? You know later till after it's closed, although I do think part of the thing with a restaurant is a new work at a restaurant You know this now I would say where you work is probably an example of My guess would be that the system gets abused people are pretty cash about the you know the closing time So we finish seating at a certain time and then usually it's you know an hour and a half two hours later by the time the restaurant actually clears out Right, which is which is again we expect that so like you go in you're you're not assuming that once the restaurant closes that that means Oh, I'm gonna be able to finish up and go home It's like you you know what you're getting into and again I think that the employees should be paid for any time that they're at the restaurant and for obviously once the restaurants Technically closed the tips are sort of stop rolling in so what everyone's making per hour is dropping pretty quickly

32:02So I would never abuse that system But like we went in at 10 30 knowing that we were going to order our stuff and eat pretty fast. Yeah The whole restaurant was full. We got a table. We ordered our ramen The employees at this place I have never seen people Closing like doing the sidewalk and shutting down a restaurant more aggressively. I mean They they were like the the cop in Terminator 2 that keeps turning into like mercury and then reforming into and he's just running with like Determination that was like like we got some vegetarian geosa They didn't come with any kind of sauce. Yeah, which it's odd to me like I feel like that's a standard a little soy sauce or something And so I was just trying to flag someone down to go could we get a little sauce with this possibly it no one would make eye contact with us No one would like they you know, it was just like it was someone's side work I'm sure is cleaning all the sauce bottles putting them all away. Yes doing all that's and again So they're like I actually already put all that in the walk-in so I'm not gonna go get you some more

33:07Essentially, that's kind of what happened. I asked finally got a guy asked him he just turned he well He disappeared for like four minutes then came it by the way. They were just little to go. Uh-huh He didn't bring me back a like a a canister of anything There's a little to-go guy which was not enough right for the geosa, but whatever it was just like and and this is where I said I don't want It I don't want to just seem like I'm an old man yelling at cloud or that I'm just complaining my way through life Because I've been having a great time here in Seattle I love this city so much and I love the people of this city, but it definitely felt generational to me as well Now I said to Becca. I was like we are the oldest people in this it was a ramen place on Capitol Hill Yeah, that's 10 10 30 at night. Yeah, I was like we're the oldest people in this restaurant She goes you are the oldest person in this restaurant Which is fair because there is you know about six-year age gap. Mm-hmm, but But it felt it felt generational to me in a way that was just like there was Absolutely no pretense of anyone who worked at this place

34:07liking any of the customers being there and And and and you know and there was a variety of the folks working there We're from a variety of backgrounds right in other words It wasn't it was this isn't cultural right sure. This was this was you know people of all different It's shaped sizes stripes ethnicities. It was a large staff and a large staff that was a very diverse in It's you know in just the spectrum of everybody But they were aligned on one thing. Yeah, which was we want these people out of here It's it is funny like Even if it's you said I think it was like a Wednesday night even if it's like a weeknight if If there's a couple of things that throughout the course of the service kind of Go wonky or there's a couple customers that rub us the wrong way I Can say as a as a front-of-house staff you tend to all kind of like get into the same Yes mindset and so as the nights winding down even if the guests who are sitting down are not You know are being very polite too. There is a certain us against them. Yeah, it's it is it does and especially the restaurant that I work at

35:11You know we we serve a lot of guests who are not you know that we're not in the same economic bracket Yes, and so there it there does feel like there's a separation of us for us now that being said Restaurant on Capitol Hill that probably serves just a lot of Young people who live on Capitol Hill seems like the type of place where you know There they would be a little more cash, but um, but it's not it's not super surprising that you would have that experience But here's the thing That ramen did a number on my stomach Oh, okay, and this brings me to James McCracken's Most important point actually. No, here's his most important point in Louisville Kentucky James is our second dazzling donor He said I don't have anything to promote personally. So instead. I'll promote someone else's business if you find yourself in Louisville James I just said I'm gonna be there in two weeks and you like beer and pizza. I do You just heard about me being a menace at the Mariners game James If you like beer and pizza check out mile wide brewing and max pizza

36:12Max's M.A.C. Apostrophe S mile wide brewing and max pizza in Louisville, Kentucky Well, James, I will be checking it out when I am there in a couple of weeks And thank you so much for supporting the show. We really do appreciate it. This is where the the The ramen talk and my stomach having some discomfort brings us David This we're in a hotel room right now. Yeah, you and I recording this we're at the Sheraton here in downtown Seattle and it's a very nice hotel Here's the thing they Like so many hotels in America have embraced the barn door on the bathroom and it is it is I think one of the worst Developments in hotel design of maybe in the last 50 years the reason they go with a barn door is because they're making the hotel rooms smaller It's not any as they can yeah, and the barn door which if you don't know that's like a door that doesn't open and Close like we think of a door doing but it slides back and forth so you don't have to have all of the sort of clearance that you need

37:17It's one step up from a pocket door, which are the worst of all. Yes, absolutely also I David. Thank you for maintaining your cool. I picked at a scab on my eyebrow And I'm just like violently bleeding Okay, good. I hope it's not too gruesome. It's pretty cool being the 49 years of weight some day in 19 years David You also could have acne still it's a it's a it's a quite a gift It keeps me humble in this life, but anyway. Yeah, we get back to the hotel room and like No privacy zero privacy for that kind of thing and like Actually, you know, it's nowhere to hide you know Becca couldn't hide from the noise if she wanted to know and I How much you blast the TV? I'm running the water in there. I mean luckily it was not sonically It was not like a massive sound event thankfully But it was just I was it was not the thing I wanted to be doing three feet from my girlfriend

38:17With only a barn door Mm-hmm. That which doesn't go to the floor That's the problem with the barn door is by design because of the way it moves It's got to have a more of a gap right between the the bottom of the door and the floor of the bathroom or whatever the hallway Then a typical door. So no sound dampening and also sound importantly no smell dampening either that smells coming out of yeah I mean probably coming out of its cage and we're not doing fine I Did I ran the water and I tried to be kind of quiet and I again It was probably good that it was too in the morning because she was Not fully asleep, but at least a little bit more a little bit less conscious of the entire thing But our friend broadcast Barry sent me I don't know he this man travels the world But he was somewhere I think he was in maybe in China or maybe Taiwan But he was this is my brand. It's very strong by the way He sent me a picture of like a toilet in whatever this place

39:18He was in this other country. He was in which had a bidet and all of that But it also had a function that was it played music or white noise Toilet could play audio That's because what I've said is that like every hotel bathroom should have a really loud fan in it Right now that's hard from an HVAC standpoint like they're not all vented out to the thing So that's why a lot of hotel rooms in the bathroom. There's not a fan Put a white noise fan in yeah put in a purely sound bass. I don't even have to move any air Just put in something that sounds like a like a Mac truck That's running that will Dampen out all of the sounds if you're gonna put a barn door in please Hotel years of America, please put in some kind of sound noise for me my relationship needs it Hello, and welcome to top story All right, let's talk top stories This was definitely the top story on the Hock squad the other day David and I'll be honest with you

40:20I did not as we say in journalism read in I just saw the headline But luckily I have you here to explain it to me which is the headline is that Stephen Colbert and his son Yeah, our our park are going to write the next Lord of the Rings film and and this is not a rumor Steve Stephen Jackson one time rams running back Stephen Jackson has confirmed it Peter Jackson has confirmed This is really happening. Yeah, yeah, this was a this was a really bizarre headline to see so basically, I think a year or two ago it was announced that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Philippa Boynes the the kind of main writers in directing producing crew that made the the Lord of the Rings trilogy we're going to Start developing a couple of more movies at first. It was just gonna be one more movie this movie that they had already titled the hunt for Gollum Which was it and that that one's coming on I think in a year or two

41:24Apparently and it it follows Erragorn and Gandalf as they're kind of like searching for Gollum. This is in this in time a truncated amount of time that I think is about like 17 years That we see in in the book in the fellowship of the ring But it's it's basically like one chapter in the book and so there's not a lot of a lot there Canonically that they can pull on. Yeah, because you were explaining this to me last time that there's this whole thing of like Not that they're running out of Loader content, but like most of the good stuff has been done in the major movies and so now it's all these like Expanding like the world of one event or sometimes inventing characters and stuff depending on who the network is like Where are we at with like is there any good loader content that hasn't been Already made into something there is there is a lot of of really interesting stories and world building that

42:27Happens throughout the course of the book the so meridian which I said yeah, which is which which is a book It's basically a compilation of like notes and things that Tolkien Wrote after Lord of the Rings and some before it's kind of just all this mythology Leading up to the War of the Ring the time when When we see in the Lord of the Rings all of that Due to some bizarre Red taping of the licensing of the Tolkien estate Basically no Amazon Warner Brothers none of these Production companies have the licensing to do any of the stories that are in Text so that's that's like all they have is What is inside of the text of the Lord of the Rings and the vomit which are kind of coupled together and that includes Obviously all of the story of the Lord of the Rings what it also includes is What are called the appendices which are you know in appendix that you would get at the end of the book and at the end of The return of the King the final Lord of the Rings book there's probably like 30 or 40 pages of

43:33Just again kind of world building um Origins of certain characters the future of certain characters. So it's there is stuff there It's interesting. It's certainly interesting to read and it's nice after you've finished the whole story You kind of have these extra chapters that are um You know a little extra cherry on top, but that is all that The Amazon people had to work with when they you know had been making this the the rings of power that the TV show And that's as well what Peter Jackson and his team have to work off of for these new films So all that to say that is the reason why the first film the hunt for golem is kind of This really tiny bit of the story and they're just kind of fleshing it out and they're allowed in that space to have the liberty to Create out of whole cloth, you know new characters and kind of new storylines as long as it Aligns with the narrative that they've already set up and so

44:33It i'm not Usually excited about that film really we don't really know a ton about the casting of it um Well, that's what i was gonna ask like for we'll get to the colbert part in a moment But like it seems to me that like If i'm Peter Jackson and i want to make Another one of these movies and i want it to appeal to all of the diehards. Mm-hmm. Aren't you Like you have to cast Andy circus as golem you have to cast like anybody who's in there who's been in the other movies Right like you don't you want to get the whole gang back together you would think i mean it would certainly be the most marketable And and Andy circus is easy because golem You just put you know a cringey balls on him yeah and uh on him and and he becomes golem But for the other characters that you know they've aged yes significantly. I guess that's a good one You know a guy like In mekelin who is i mean i don't know if he Is on any film sets anymore just because you know he's of At least he started out as an old wizard right that is sure at least that like they can do a certain amount there

45:39I mean it could be harder with like aragorn right in the roomers Yeah, there were rumors that legless was gonna make an appearance as well And so yeah those characters i mean aragorn again. He's kind of gruff anyways I guess you can kind of dh him but a character like legless who's like This pristine very young looking character. They already tried to dh him for The hobbit films one of the hobbit films legless shows up It's a whole thing. Oh, no, no talking people hate it But he shows up and he looks weird as hell. He looks old, but they've tried to dh him. Oh, no, you know There's all these right and and i think studios have this impression that like Oh, we can do the cgid aging and and it's and it's really good and it we pull it off It's not good. I know. I feel like I've never noticed I have never seen that deployed as a tool effectively in a way that wasn't distracting Yeah, they did it for a couple of the the newer star wars movies And specifically the rogue one star wars movie which was like the time leading up to a new age jota right to back when he was hot

46:42I Still hot dude is a whole snack. No, they dh General Tarcan who's the I forget the actor who played him they also dh Carrie Fisher okay, and so and those were kind of the test subjects and I thought they did a An okay job of kind of hiding some of the you know more CGI aspects of it But since then I think studios have thought that they could do that I still don't think they can do that no matter how far and you know they're trying to use AI like now You know, they're like even more emboldened because I'm like they're like we have AI now It's like yeah, but it still looks Bad yeah, and I think Peter Jackson especially has this hubris of like when they were making those original movies the original three Lord of the Rings It was they were doing so they were breaking so much new ground when I get digital effects totally and getting and getting Reviews. Yes exactly. They created this entire this this Production company called wedda digital and this is where and wedda has been kind of the gold standard for CGI

47:44Is there are cousins? Husband works. Yeah, exactly just on shadows, right, right? Like yeah, they had all these animators and shadows right and that was great when they had a huge team of animators And now a lot of that has been pulled back because there are thoughts that like oh AI and right You know computer assistants can help us with a lot of these design aspects Anyways, all that to say it I'm not hugely excited for that gollum movie I'll give it a day in court because You know, I think Peter Jackson and his team have done a great job of kind of creating the yeah the world in the field I believe Howard Shore the The composer who did the original composition. I believe he's doing the music. Um, so that they've engaged him too Yeah, right. They're like why So is that the one that also cold bear and his son have been tapped to write? Is this a gimmick? It it certainly feels gimmicky, but it is I mean, it's been greenlit as as a Another film so the gollum is one. Okay. The second one. I believe they're the

48:48The name that they're giving it right now is called a shadow of the past. Okay, and it's Even more so taking a teeny tiny portion of one of the books and expanding on it when no one has asked for it to be expanded on so it's What what co bear has said is it's a few chapters in the first book where the four hobbits are it's their journey between the shire and uh, the town of bree which is kind of the first town filled with Big people as they were just like men. Yes, um, that aren't hobbits. Okay, and that journey in the books is like Six chapters or something and they go through this whole adventure in what's called the old forest Which is just like a kind of spooky haunted wood that they have to navigate through In that journey they meet this guy Tom Bombadil. Oh, right. It's kind of a legendary character And so that I what co bear has said is basically that's going to be the the the story and

49:53I've been seeing kind of conflicting reports of that's the story, but also There's going to be an aspect to it of The actors who played the hobbits the shanaston Billy boy and dominant monohan who played three of the four hobbits are going to be it's going to be basically them like Telling the story of it There's all of this contrived aspects that I think is so that they can Resign on some of these actors who were really good in their roles, but also they can be their normal They can be the age they are they reflect those scenes at least, but oh right I will be interested to see what they do again It's hard to be too excited. I feel really protective of the material especially after what amazon did with the tv show And I mean frankly Back you know 15 years ago now when they made the hobbit films and they were kind of a train wreck so it's It's always kind of fun and interesting to have new Lord of the Rings token-esque news

50:56It's I was like being able to you know chat with dad about it, but It's not I'm not I think as excited as I would have been If they had announced this 15 years ago Instead of the hobbit films or something like that like at that point I was so Starved for the material at this point. It's kind of like Great. They're just retreading the same same stuff for my child that like it feels like my childhood is now being Mind for nostalgia with the way Welcome to being 30. Yeah, exactly. That's a real indicator. Yeah Um, and I think again, you know, we obviously on this program We stand Stephen Colbert to the to the highest heights. We love this guy And he is for folks that don't know like an deeply obsessed Lord of the Rings fan and knows you know, yeah, he's he knows it scholar like actual Tolkien professors and scott like he is a a world-renowned token Head token scholar. Yeah, so it is in good hands in that sense

51:59I but just so it's also it just feels though like being A being a late-night television host and a very talented You know sketch comedy or whatever you want to call strangers with candy. I guess being a talented television performer And being a Tolkien scholar. I don't know if that makes you a Tolkien screenplay writer because they feel like they're different skills to me I've been learning this but you want to talk about going from very high to very low I've been for some reason assigned to cover all these like TV shows of late. Like um, I'm doing a story about this this like a spin-off from the um Like a big bang theory universe, but it's an HBO show and it's single camera and it's you know I wasn't somebody who watched the big bang theory a lot But I in talking to the producers on set of this new show that they were filming He was explaining the so much stuff to me that would never even occur to me about storytelling and about Why you put something in a scene or why you don't right? And then I've been doing like I did this story about the NCIS

53:02And the fact that they got to 500 episodes the same thing not a show that I You know would probably myself watch on the regular but talking to the writers and the producers. It's like there is A knack to how you put an hour of television together or two hours of a movie or whatever like there's just It's something that you get good at by doing it a bunch of times and trial and error And like there's just a lot more kind of going on behind the scenes of that than I sort of realized So even more so it's like I'm just wondering if Colbert knows how to do that part of this. Yeah, and it My sense is that it's more he's more of a consultant or he'll end up at the end of the day being more of a like Tolkien consultant to it because Also signed on is the you know the screenwriter of essentially all of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films Okay, Philip a boy who's really good. She knows you know she she she seemingly knows how to write yeah this specific text as film as screenwriting so I'm gonna assume that he will be well guided but it is

54:02Yeah, I it was shocking to see because yeah, you you don't think of Colbert as someone who could write for TV because I don't I mean he I assume he wrote when he was on the daily show maybe oh sure and I think he wrote yeah I think he wrote that for his show as much as there's writing for it But that all just feels really different than like yeah with this world of Lord of the Rings stuff Which is so kind of like it's not comedic. I mean there are moments that are considered comedic right by the fans of the thing right and there's just so much Exposition yeah needs to be you know so much explaining that needs to be done for a regular Film audience now it comes to you you had said in the Hawke's squad I think it was you you were wondering if he might play Tom Bombadil Yeah, would that be was that your dad might have been dad I do wonder who they'll have would that be like if that suddenly like they come out They they emerge from the forest and it's cold bear is there and like a Tom Bombadil outfit would that like I feel like that might throw me off as a viewer because he's so associated with

55:09Non-Lord of the Rings stuff like yeah, it'd be hard for me to take him seriously Definitely he had while he also already portrays a character in the Tolkien. Oh he does he was he had like a brief cameo in one of the Hobbit films Him and his kids as well And so but I yeah, I don't I also don't see him as Having the acting chops quite for that like sure But in and it's a character that's very much larger than life. So I will be interested I'm always interested to see the casting of um of you know a book that I Have a have a really high opinion of um and I think they the first time around they did such a good job casting all of the roles That I'll be it'll be interesting to see kind of how they come and they go and maybe this will all kind of you know Much like the Seahawks season You know you went in with kind of pretty mid expectations was Sam Darnell to be able to do it right And it exceeded all expectations Maybe this could be one of those things where it just kind of the pieces fall into place

56:11And if you've got the original screenwriter and you got the original person scoring it and Peter Jackson is at the helm You know, it could maybe this could all just like try not to be something really really cool that like works better than you're expecting Yeah, that's true and yeah, and then it can like pretty easily those films can then fold into the you know When I do my marathon of all the films it's like you slot those in which I would be more than the more than happy to To do that, but it is hard to not be jaded about really any revamps or tools of you know stuff that I really enjoyed because it again just feels like that's The only things that Hollywood is able to get funding for are existing IP exactly like when we see the emojis lord of the rings movie We know that we've reached peak Hollywood Here I go once again with the email every week. I hope that it's from a female. Oh man It's not from a female All right, let's uh do a couple of emails

57:12Or any email before we get out of here uh and uh and hit the weekend By the way, Andrew will be back on Monday. He's uh Still enjoying himself in Hawaii. He um sent me maybe we'll talk about this on the show on Monday I don't know how caught up on the program you are david, but we were talking about afro man. Oh yeah, and lemon pound cake He sent me a a text message from a restaurant in Hawaii where they were having dinner this week where there's in Hawaii And I love this actually. It's pretty typical if you're in a bar restaurant There's almost always live music. It's always like a person with a guitar Singing some van Morrison or whatever The dude was singing lemon pound cake was singing the afro man song lemon pound cake in Hawaii That's amazing. So that's how you know that that's um that's really broken through but anyway, Andrew be back on Monday in the meantime Um, well, I got this email a little while ago from listener Lloyd who was pointing out that In order for the major league baseball To use these robot umpires which we're calling them. So for folks that don't know um they

58:14You know, they have the ability because of I think literally lasers And things to have an incredibly precise strike zone for a batter like where the ball Where it is reasonable to expect that the batter would be able to hit the ball right and that's how the whole thing works If the ball is in that zone and you don't hit it then it's a strike And of course we have human umpires trying to use their eyes. They're pretty good at it actually most of time considering yeah But um, but we could know to a more precise level and Because baseball is a very traditional game for some reason they don't want to just like go full on robot They don't want to just turn it over to the lasers right now even though on some level Kind of would make more sense So they're kind of just like easing us into it by allowing the teams to challenge right like if there's a pitch That they think let's just say the hitter is standing there and he thinks that the ball is outside of the strike zone And the umpire says it is inside of the strike zone that hitter can challenge And then they go to what the robot decided and then that's the official call

59:16It's just that's what it is with the robot thinks the ball was in the strike center out of the strike zone And it happened a few times last night. It should have happened a few more. Yeah as far as I'm concerned The Mariners did zero challenging. Mm-hmm. It's like Dan. What are you saving those for? Logo Call back um But something I hadn't considered was The fact that as part of this they are apparently Measuring all of the major league players Without their cleats on Although that's weird. You should measure them with their cleats on right if you think about it Maybe it's with the cleats on but they're doing these incredibly no, I think it's without They're doing these incredibly detailed Measurements of all the players of their height because that's part of I guess that goes into the calculation Right, I mean the space between what you're like your chest in your knees is kind of classically what the strike zone would be right So it changes definitely between you know, Jose Altube has a significantly different than air and judge right Yeah, I was gonna go with Alejandra Kirk, but that's fine. You have your short guy reference. I have mine

1:00:20So yeah, I it only makes sense. I guess that they'd have to have a really really dialed in Sort of mathematical or or a measurable sense of the dimensions of each player because also everyone's torso isn't the same right the torso to legs and Everything's different on every person. So they've got I my guess is at this point When a player gets called up they must take them somewhere and do this measurement now because if you're coming to bat in a major league baseball game they know exactly Your real-ass dimensions and this is an amazing stat a guy named Gavin Lux Who I think had been playing for a Cincinnati, and I think now is maybe in Tampa He was listed officially at six two. He's five eleven That is a lot that is three inches that Gav was trying to get over on Which is which is no in person he says yeah like six one six two like edge of six one I mean I like like that's a you know that's definitely and by the way This is not a conversation about anyone's height and how anyone should feel about their height

1:01:21Whatever that might be I might support short Kang absolutely my friend Joe Quizala who is not a particularly tall individual has a great stand-up He's a stand-up and very funny And he says there's something that you need to know about guys who are five eight which is that we're five seven And then and something else and throughout the bit we we find out that he's maybe five five by the end of the bit But like the fact that this Gavin Lux guy was I mean five eleven you going up to six foot fine Six one feels like you're trying to get away with something six two is Is ridiculous yeah as far as and you know So yeah, if you have been if you're in the major league baseballs and you were Trying to exaggerate your height for whatever reason There is a reckoning now of of what your actual height is there's also a reckoning since we're now In the emails and it's a Friday. We're almost done with the show I don't know if I I I'm wishing that our friend Andrew Walsh had not with his eagle

1:02:23I spotted the headband yeah that one of our players our new players was wearing right after he hit a home run I don't know how far I was going to get before knowing that Brendan Donovan Is a sort of a blue lives matter guy. I don't I mean I don't know if that could have been kept for me all season But I wouldn't have minded having one game Of bliss especially a game where he performed very well He was probably I mean, I guess Tom don't can zone was yes the best with his two home runs You're your doppelganger don't can zone Yeah, going into that game. We had a lot of questions about Brendan Donovan and so to see him a new player to the team Yeah, seeing him I mean From the first at that explode incredible. It's a home run. It's a double Yeah, you're immediately like oh, this is great. What a great addition to our team and then you have to see to see his You know, it looks like a survivor buff, but whatever guys with long hair used to like Yes, keep their hair But his was definitely one of those like the American flag, but it's black for some reason

1:03:23It's just like and so he hits this home run and maybe he was after the double I don't know where it was in the game But again, I am just it although listen. I'll give our friend Andrew His due on this this hurts him more than anyone because he has a trove Of Donovan memes that he's really excited to deploy again just to go into the absolute weeds on this This is the semirellium of mariners baseball and Andrew's love of Donovan Last year we had a player named Donovan Solano And so Andrew loved to make silly memes when that guy Donovan Solano would do something good Which was pretty infrequent for a lot of the season He had made all these Donovan memes And then that we'd like let that guy go or whatever But then we signed a new Donovan and I think he might I don't know if he remade the memes or just saved them But he is very excited and then the this guy's first at batty hits a home run He leads off the game with a home run it was phenomenal And and so Andrew I you know was excited to use these Donovan memes But then he's also the one who self reported yeah with this kind of blur like grainy photograph

1:04:24Right because it was like from the TV Coverage of him just like in the you know on the bench changing his batting helmet into his regular hat or whatever Just this quick. This is a prudor film. Yeah, but we've seen we've seen the that iconography quite a bit So we all recognize we know exactly what it means and I was just like So then Andrew was trying to say it's like it's ironic. It's like a pink golf He kept but you know what it did also allow me it allowed me to um It allowed me to bond with Durs a little bit Which is a which is a rare event on these in these troubled times on the texture Well first of all what I'll tell you is I a hundred percent forgot that he was still unblocked So like me and Becker sitting in the stands and of course every time something happens I want to see what the criminals responses. Yeah, and then like you know It didn't start super great. We gave up a run in the first inning And I'm just like I I boot up the criminals feed and it's just Durs just melting down and me going like oh, I forgot he's on here Yeah, it's a constant for for those of us who you know cherish our friendships. Yeah, uh block him. Yeah, it's uh

1:05:30It's it doesn't he doesn't rest. No, he does sue his his uh his general sense of pessimism But he did he did though um jumped in and kind of got my back Uh when Andrew posted the photo of Donovan with the with the Punisher Headwrap thing going on I said Andrew I was ready to go the whole season not knowing this and Andy our friend Durs said I pretended not to see it Which that was nice. That was a little um that was a chance for us to bond I mean, I'll probably have him blocked by 8 p.m. tonight But he's still I'm still I'm letting it ride. I'm I'm I'm looking forward to a good season for the baseball team Even though we lost last night. Yeah, and um, uh, you know, maybe a new kind of relationship with our friend Durs Yeah, you know, and I think I going into this season It definitely put a pit in my stomach of just like Everyone is saying we're good series bound Yeah, you know, less than the American League and that has never once worked out for it. No

1:06:33So I was I kind of assumed that last night we would you know, there would be a few things that would go wrong and Yeah, the it's hard, you know, not getting into the No, we can we're in the Badlands if I had my I don't have my audio drops today which people have noticed But um just everybody sing the Badlands the Badlands theme in your head, please you can't have your Two through four Hitters go over. Yeah, yeah, like that just can't Can't have that and and be a team that expects the win especially against Cleveland who you know One their division last year and they've certainly they've got some really great pitching and some and some great players I'm worried about the bullpen personally. Yeah, the reason is because like I think the hitters will come around It was one game right we have had for the last three or four seasons Our bullpen has somehow always exceeded expectations. Yeah for no reason that anyone can figure out right We've just like pulled guys off the scrap heap right of major league baseball And they've just like had the season of their life right all of a sudden like oh that guy's a that guy's a leverage arm

1:07:38Cool like he'd been on four teams and right no one he didn't show any real flash anywhere But now he's here and somehow he's like really locking it down. Yeah, and it and it seems like a lot of seasons We would trade out you know, we'd change out the the name on the back of the jersey And but they would have the same outcome they would have a really really strong season that nobody quite expected right I don't know how reproducible that is over time. I mean, I guess we reproduced it Pretty well for the last few seasons, but it just I mean Munoz is great obviously, but like I'm just worried that like I don't know I mean is Gabe Spires Is he really good or did he just have a good season last year is Bazardo good or did he just have a good season last year like All of Bazardo is pretty young. It's hard to say because like I feel like with a lot of these guys the sample size Relative to like a starting picture is so small In just the amount of guys they face on a day-to-day basis and so yeah, you can just be on a streak of either facing guys who are maybe not the the biggest threat in a given lineup or Yeah, you just get on a hot streak of you have a few pitches and because you're not a starting pitcher

1:08:42maybe a team doesn't Know all the stuff that you have and so you're able to kind of go to your full arsenal and and and and look really good So it's hard, but I do I still have faith in some of our like I still have faith in Matt Brasch I still have faith in on just Munoz because those guys seem to be they just have Pitches that yes, a lot of stuff is filters don't have and by the way one other good thing I thought Logan Gilbert turned in a workman like Like a decent start he give up three runs You know, and I think with our team with with our with the way our hitting should work If our starting pictures Keep the other team relatively under control, which I consider three runs through five or whatever to be relatively under control We should win some games like if our of our pitching staff does what it's able to do They don't have to go out and throw you know no hitters every night right I think that we should be pretty good on paper. It's kind of interesting already seeing like Adam Jude today in the times writing about how basically the Mariners already

1:09:42Completely blew it on the challenges like Cal Raleigh struck out in the eighth inning on a pitch that was Demonstrably outside the zone. Yeah, I didn't challenge it Yeah, and it's just because he's like he's just like too much of a like corporate man He's too much. He's too busy not shaking Randy's hand right not challenging in the eighth inning Right, what's the downside of it? Well, yeah exactly. It's like you're not you don't bank the challenges throughout games It's like you've got you've got to and if you get one right you get to keep you know, you get to keep it So yeah, there's no harm especially late in the game like you said of of using it And I think that's the type of thing that guys are gonna become more comfortable doing yeah, but it is funny that like Yeah, all the pitching staff has put it on cow when he's behind the plate to yeah to do it because they think oh He's he has the best vision, but then when he's up to bat He you know swallowed his uh, yeah, swallow his whistle You know again, it's a long season. It was only one game. I'm excited to watch the rest of this series or am I

1:10:43Because if you even if you pay for the mariners TV stuff if you pay for mlbtv or mariners.tv or whatever Guess what tonight is apple tv. Guess what sunday night is peacock well apparently According to all the things it doesn't matter what Network it's on if you have the mariners.tv subscription. That's not what the time said yesterday Well, that's that's what the the mariners app has been saying to me. Oh, okay. Okay. I still can I see That means that I have all the streaming stuff, but I was really so I paid I can I borrow your 100 bucks and I borrow your apple tv absolutely um I I paid the hundred bucks. I forked over the money. Yeah, and Immediately like essentially right after Brendan Donovan had his home run the tv froze up. Oh, no, I assume it's because so many people were logging on Yeah to the server to to watch it But I was like and then I couldn't get it working again on our tv for like several innings

1:11:44So I was definitely Pist with it already. Oh, and so we'll see if if it is because they advertise it as no blackouts If it is a thing where It's not on because it's on apple tv. I'm gonna I'm gonna be you know one of the platforms That does have this built-in now if you're paying for it. Hmm Fubo. Ah, I might have to go back to Fubo I might have to go crawling back I might have to go crawling back to Fubo get rid of my youtube tv Go crawling back to Fubo because what I want to do is just walk into my house after a hard day of podcasting after toiling Over a hot microphone and hit one button on my remote control and watch it like it's a tv program Not do what I'm gonna have to do right now, which is go on the Roku that Andrew sent me Yeah, to get on MLB TV to get on the Mariners which when I was watching in spring training I'm hoping that the spring training cameras aren't as good As the real ones in the season because he didn't look the quality looked kind of bad on what I was watching It looked like root sports, you know, and it's still going to be using our voice. We're using a Roku

1:12:49Oh, no, I mean, I was in your TV, right? It's in yeah, it's on it's an app on my Samsung TV my Expensive TV does not have the MLB app native to it. That's crazy ridiculous right now this whole Streaming thing is such a mess the fact that you can't just Watch a Mariners game on a local channel if you are in yeah, I think it's gonna ultimately it may hurt The may hurt MLB overall like just people's level of interest because Um, I think people can lose the thread on some of these teams and some of these games if it's just like a constant hunt for it It's just like there was a story in the New York Times. I think this week That is if you want to watch all of the Yankees games It's over $800 for the season because of all of the Different and because of the Yankees too. It's like you've got to buy that whatever the Yankees thing is But then that the games on Amazon right the game is on Apple TV the game is on all these different places And apparently they don't have whatever that deal is where you know if you've one ring to rule them all as it were

1:13:52To bring it all back and that well, it's what they say I we will see I suppose tonight Yeah, I hope you're right because this other thing is making me crazy, but All right then well That's I think gonna probably do it for this Show and this broadcast week. Thank you everyone for listening like I said angel will be back on Monday So we'll get things kind of back to Normal if you sent in a blurs day if you are not my brother and you are not the co-host of today's show and you sent in a blurs day This week we are we're gonna get to all of those next week So we promised your your birthday and your loved ones birthdays have not been forgotten It'll just be happening next week on the show all right then in the meantime Thanks for listening everybody have a great Friday take care of yourselves Go Mariners and please remember no mountain to tall and good luck to all You

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